Ralph Lauren quietly shuttered its two-year-old 20,000-square-foot store last week. Other brands are expected to close boutiques in a city that has lost its luster for cash-rich mainland Chinese tourists.

His affordable Karl women’s collection can now be purchased exclusively online through the link to Net-A-Porter, which ships to 170 countries. The e-tail section for Karl Lagerfeld Paris’ men’s line is “coming soon,” according to the site.

The “Kollections” area features Lagerfeld’s most recent collections, including Karl fall-winter 2012 women’s and men’s, Karl Lagerfeld Paris 2012 women’s and men’s and Lagerfeld fall-winter 2012.

Despite all the changes, never fear. Karl.com remains home to his pithy “Karlisms,” such as: “I’m living my memoir, I don’t need to write it.” And there’s: “I know how annoying, impossible and hard to please I can be. I wouldn’t recommend myself as a guest to anyone.”

The quotes are found on the site’s homepage — still under the “World of Karl” section — which also links to other subsections chockablock with photomontages, including Fashion and Places, giving an insight into the designer’s favorite things. Under Art & Culture, Lagerfeld suggests Paris’ Biennale des Antiquitaires, for instance.

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